Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin

[Houder <houder@xs4all.nl>]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:43:22, David Karr  wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 7:58 AM Houder wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:40:28, David Karr  wrote:
[snip]

> > > Any other ideas?
> >
> >  1. cygcheck -srv? (include the compressed output to your reply)
> >
> >  2. getent passwd? (what home directory for your id?)
> >
> 
> The first line of this output is this (with some minor elisions):
> 
> <mydomain>+User(1944941):*:2993517:2993517:U-<mydomain>\User(1944941),S-1-5-21-2057499049-1289676208-1959431660-1944941:/:/sbin/nologin

Really? /sbin/nologin for "shell" ?????

grepping winsup/cygwin/* for "/sbin/nologin"

results in

2777     __small_sprintf (linebuf, "%W:%s:%u:",
2778                      posix_name, sid.string ((char *) sidstr), uid);
2779   /* For non-users, create a passwd entry which doesn't allow interactive
2780      logon.  Unless it's the SYSTEM account.  This conveniently allows to
2781      logon interactively as SYSTEM for debugging purposes. */
2782   else if (acc_type != SidTypeUser && sid != well_known_system_sid)
2783     __small_sprintf (linebuf, "%W:*:%u:%u:U-%W\\%W,%s:/:/sbin/nologin",
2784                      posix_name, uid, gid,
2785                      dom, name,
2786                      sid.string ((char *) sidstr));
2787   else

(pwdgrp::fetch_account_from_windows() in uinfo.cc)

Mmmh, ... I think you will need advice from Corinna ... (IF I am correct!).

Henri


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